Computing Labs for Students

Students of the department have 24-hour access to three computing labs (CL1, CL2, and LITEC) located within the department. Some features of these labs:

• CL1 (23 terminals)
  • Powered by SUN Fire X2250 Rack mount Server
• CL2 (5 machines)
  • Intel Pentium 4, 3.20 GHz
  • 1 GB RAM
• Litec (16 machines)
  • Dual core Intel Xeon processor, 2.00 GHz
  • 4 GB ram
• SUN Fire X2250 Rack mount Server
  • Intel Xeon QC 3.0 GHz
  • 16GB RAM
  • 500GB SATA x2
  • DVD-RW
  • 10/100/1000 Ethernet port
  • Running: Cent OS v4.3
  • 23 Sun Ray 2FS Virtual Display Client with 22" TFT Monitor
• SUN Fire X4150 Server:
  • 1xIntel Xeon Quad core E5440, 2.83GHz, 1333MHz
  • 2x146GB 10K RPM SAS HDD
  • DVD RW
  • 4GB Memory
  • SAS RAID Controller
  • Four 10/100/1000 Ports
  • Redundant Power Supply
  • SUN Storagetek 2530 array with 12 TB SATA HDD
• Common file, mail and web servers.
• CSA provides personal home page for its students.  Create One
• Printer and Scanner facilities
• System Admins
• Ashish Mishra
• Kamble Amol Balaso
• P Muhammed Irshad
• Saurav Mondal
• Contact: studadm@csa.iisc.ernet.in
• Printer Admin
• Govind Sharma
• Sharad Kumar Nandanwar

Other Computing Facilities in the Department

• FIST Cluster :
  • The cluster consists of 36 nodes connected by Gigabit ethernet and infiniband.
  • Each node includes:
  • 2 Xeon quad core processors (2.66GHz, 12MB L2 Cache)
  • 16GB memory
  • 250GB hard disk
  • The nodes run CentOS (release 5.3).
  • The currently available software includes:
  • C and Fortran compilers (gcc, Intel C and Fortran compilers)
  • MPI (mvapich, mvapich2 and openmpi)
  • Libraries (mkl, gotoblas2)
  • The cluster uses the Torque cluster manager, Maui scheduler and Ganglia monitoring tool.
  • Managed by Prof. Matthew Jacob Thazhuthaveetil
• 25 node,100 core, AMD opteron 275 cluster.
• 24-Node (2 DualCore each) cluster.
• 6-Node Xeon cluster.
• All connected on a Gigabit network.

Students and faculty of the institute also have access to a wide range of computing facilities (including most softwares) available in the Supercomputer and Education Research Center (SERC) of the institute. This includes the recently acquired IBM Blue Gene Supercomputer.